Hi, I am new to the Arduino (just about to buy one plus an expansion sheild) and it seems that I will need 'buckled connectors' however I cannot seem to find a supplier (I have already tried Ebay ) Iwould appreciate any information anyone could give as to a possible supplier.

Is just me that has never heard of buckled cables ? There is screwy spacing on pins 8 - Aref, but the expansion shield will take care of that, care to elaborate on what you're going to do with the arduino ?

Well let me see if I can help the OP with references. He can correct me if I misinterruted his question.

Several asian vendors sell a connecting shield for a series of electronic components and sensors they call bricks. This is the shield part and notice the use of 3 pin snap connectors for the analog inputs and a 4 pin connector for the I2C/serial connetion:

Hahaha, yeah, that might be a Chinglish invention or maybe translated from English to Japaness then Chinese and back to English. According to page 79 on Jameco's catelog, it is called keyed shrouded headers and connectors. Parts 152734 and 152741.

Do we know what the actual connector is called? make? model number?Is it some sort of latching variety of JST? Is it one of the standard pin spacings? 0.1"? 1mm? 1.5mm? 2mm?

I was hoping that if Jim could identify what expansion shield board he is asking about, we could trace the connector type back from there.

They are .1" pin spacing. They have a plastic locking lever that snaps into the socket and locks automatically as you press in the cable, but you have to manually press down on the lever to release and pull out the cable.Not sure if there is a industrial name/type for these. It may be something unique to China for now?

As far as I'm aware (and a year ago I wasn't), the buckled cable or connector is basically like the audio connector from an internal CD drive to a muthaboard. It's that sort of connector (I think), and the "buckle" terminology seems to be the little clippy pressy-inny bit that locks it in place.

Sorry I didn't give enough information, they are 3 wire and as you surmised the cables are the 'Chinese ' ones ( most of the shields on EBAY seem to use them) see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arduino-Sensor-Shield-V4-digital-analog-module-servos-/370386073399?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item563cbaf737#ht_3604wt_1026

The only supplier I can find is in america , I think the postage / wait would kill it ! this link shows the cable

Thanks, got it sorted now, realised that the supplier was in fact from china emartee as advised, ... placed my order for a Roboduino as well so now its time to start to learn ' processing' whilst waiting for my delivery